Book chapter · 2024
Between Gattopardismo and Ideational Change: The Mainstream Chilean Right's Winding Road to Moderation
Stéphanie Alenda, Miguel Ángel López, Kenneth Bunker, Nicolás Miranda
In The Recasting of the Latin American Right: Polarization and Conservative Reactions, edited by André Borges, Ryan Lloyd, Gabriel Vommaro, pp. 176-196. Cambridge University Press
Alenda, S., López, M. Á., Bunker, K., & Miranda, N. (2024). Between Gattopardismo and Ideational Change: The Mainstream Chilean Right's Winding Road to Moderation. In André Borges, Ryan Lloyd, Gabriel Vommaro (Eds.), The Recasting of the Latin American Right: Polarization and Conservative Reactions (pp. 176–196). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009427432.011
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title = {{Between Gattopardismo and Ideational Change: The Mainstream Chilean Right's Winding Road to Moderation}},
booktitle= {The Recasting of the Latin American Right: Polarization and Conservative Reactions},
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publisher= {Cambridge University Press},
year = {2024},
doi = {10.1017/9781009427432.011},
url = {https://kennethbunker.github.io/publications/2024-between-gattopardismo-ideational-change-mainstream-chilean-rights/},
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Abstract
This chapter explains how the Chilean right has been reconfigured due to the multidimensional crisis that has shaken Chile since the end of 2019. The authors analyze how tensions regarding competition and identity have affected relevant actors and structured their perceptions, calculations, and behaviors. They examine the ideational changes and continuities of the Chilean right's road to moderation. They argue that the joint processes of liberalization and democratization gave rise to a gattopardista strategy of "changing so that things may remain the same." This was characterized by the programmatic moderation of coalition candidates until the 2017 campaign, with traditional right-wing parties moving to the center to the extent that they did not threaten the pillars of the neoliberal model. However, when centrist and left-wing parties aimed to significantly reform the institutional core, the traditional right did react, and moved further to the right on the ideological continuum.
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